Politicians have been making backronyms for forever, like the USA FREEDOM act, the USA PATRIOT act, RESTRICT act, and so forth.

I'm just glad this is one I can get behind.

During my last visit with my grandfather before he passed, he was asking everyone "any personal requests for me to bring to God on your behalf". I'm not religious but it did sort of disarm the tension.

You're describing a sense of nostalgia. And no, I don't consider it immature.

If he had a generic mod that happened to support Cyberpunk 2077 / that other game that got him DMCA'd, I'd agree. But he's using that IP, name, etc. to market his product and sell it - the publisher is well within their right to not want to be associated with that.

A DMCA (copyright) troll has a much different connotation than what these two publishers are doing.

Considering how tone deaf I've seen them be, I wouldn't be surprised if the department intentionally did this to try and subtly start changing the meaning of ACAB.

Keep in mind their claims about Android have been clearly refuted and their claims in general are dubious.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114789276549546469

Given this, they're either dangerously ignorant or intentionally malicious.

Is the maximum 24 characters because their database column is a VARCHAR(24)? That's one of the first questions that I thought of. Sure, it doesn't guarantee plaintext, but it's a indicator that it may be stored plaintext, considering hashing doesn't care about length. Or at the very least whoever has had eyes on this code doesn't know shit about security, which makes me less confident in the product as a whole.

The only reason I can think of to have a maximum would be to save on bandwidth and CPU cycles, and even then 24 characters is ridiculously stingy when the difference would be negligible.

AI generated. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/elon-musk-shirtless-harkonnen-photo

These are real though: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/elon-musk-shirtless-in-mykonos

Good.

The book is a book of poetry called Xanax Cowboy.

Source: I found this which includes the original Twitter post. From there it was pretty straightforward, their website is here, the about page mentions their first book which is just their Twitter handle.

Most guns don't really wear out in a reasonable timeframe. Properly maintained they can last quite a while. My first gun was from the 80s.

For gun owners in the U.S. if we no longer want a gun, don't want to go through the hassle of selling it, or the gun is unsafe (due to wear and tear or defects), or wherever reason really if we just want to get rid of it we have many options.

We can surrender a gun to our local police, though they may run its serial which might lead to awkward situations if you aren't certain of its history. There are also gun buybacks which are essentially events where you can discard a gun for cash incentive, and are typically no questions asked. You could also donate it to a local gunsmith for practice. And finally, you could render it inoperable (the ATF has guidelines that basically boil down to "weld the important stuff") and simply discard it like trash, use it as decoration, or whatever really.

Ultimately they either end up melted down, welded inoperable, or simply discard / forgotten.

I think it's a joke for the people who pay into those 6-month software engineering bootcamps.